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XIII.
FRIENDSHIP.
Friendship! Time-honored and romantic name!Who hath not loved it that hath chanced to sit
Where Forrest roared it to a gaping pit,
When Damon gave himself to feed its flame.
But Damons now-a-days who hap to live
Are men of quite a different sort of mould,
And buying oftener than “getting sold,”
Asking more always than they wish to give.
An all-exacting thing is Friendship now!
Favors men ask and liberties men take,
And things enacted are for Friendship's sake
That wildest Enmity would not allow.
It is no use the sentiment to fetter,—
The fewer friends one has by far the better.
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